Andrew Meldrum (police officer)

Andrew Meldrum, CBE, KPM (22 April 1909 – 10 January 1995) was HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland from 1966[1] to 1969.[2]

Meldrum was educated at Burntisland Higher Grade School and joined the Stirlingshire Constabulary in 1927. He was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Inverness Burgh Police[3] in 1943 and Chief Constable in 1946. He was Chief Constable of the Angus Constabulary from 1949 to 1955; and then of Fife from 1955 to 1966.[4]

  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ News in Brief The Times (London, England), Monday, 14 Jul 1969; pg. 2; Issue 57611
  3. ^ Photo of Andrew Meldrum
  4. ^ 'MELDRUM, Andrew', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 May 2016